Plagiarism is the deliberate use of someone else's ideas without acknowledging the source.
Give credit whenever you:
Use another person's idea, opinion or theory
Use any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings, or any piece of information that are not common knowledge
Use Quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words
Paraphrase another person's spoken or written words
What is the problem to be solved?
What is the question?Identify keywords
Example:
What determines the chemical behavior of an atom?
On what did Ernest Rutherford base his theory on atomic structure?
What are all possible sources of information?
Books, encyclopedias, websites, library catalog, online databases, expert, documentaries, interviewsWhere are the sources located?
CIS LIbrary Website
World Book Encyclopedia
EBSCO
Online catalog
What information does the source provide?
Avoiding Plagiarism
What is plagiarism?
Plagiarism is the deliberate use of someone else's ideas without acknowledging the source.Give credit whenever you:
Use another person's idea, opinion or theoryUse any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings, or any piece of information that are not common knowledge
Use Quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words
Paraphrase another person's spoken or written words